"The Insider (film) The Insider is a 1999 American drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a script adapted by Eric Roth and Mann from Marie Brenner's ""Vanity Fair"" article ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"". The film stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, with supporting actors including Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon. A fictionalized account of a true story, it is based on the ""60 Minutes"" segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering the personal struggles of him and CBS producer Lowell Bergman as they defend his testimony against efforts to"
"of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time. Eric Roth and Michael Mann won the Humanitas Prize in the Feature Film category in 2000. American Film Institute recognition: The Insider (film) The Insider is a 1999 American drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a script adapted by Eric Roth and Mann from Marie Brenner's ""Vanity Fair"" article ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"". The film stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, with supporting actors including Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon. A fictionalized account of a true story, it is based on the ""60 Minutes"" segment"
"a variety of audiences including children, college, medical and law students and a diverse group of policy makers. He has consulted with governments throughout the world on tobacco control policies (the list includes Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Germany, France, Ireland, Iceland and Japan). He was portrayed by Russell Crowe in the 1999 film ""The Insider"" directed by Michael Mann, which also stars Al Pacino and Christopher Plummer. Wigand is currently married to Hope Elizabeth May, an American philosopher, author and lawyer who is a professor at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he now resides."
"either completely or partly about Murrow. In 1986, HBO broadcast the made-for-cable biographical movie, ""Murrow"", with Daniel J. Travanti in the title role, and Robert Vaughn in a supporting role. In the 1999 film ""The Insider"", Lowell Bergman, a television producer for the CBS news magazine ""60 Minutes"", played by Al Pacino, is confronted by Mike Wallace, played by Christopher Plummer, after an exposé of the tobacco industry is edited down to suit CBS management and then, itself, gets exposed in the press for the self-censorship. Wallace passes Bergman an editorial printed in ""The New York Times"", which accuses CBS"
"President Barack Obama, is aiding area residents in the learning of software coding skills. Louisville for a long time was also home to the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, at its peak one of the largest manufacturers and wholesale distributors of hardware in the United States, as well as Brown & Williamson, the third-largest company in the tobacco industry before merging with R. J. Reynolds in 2004 to form the Reynolds American Company. Brown & Williamson, one of the subjects of the tobacco industry scandals of the 1990s, was the focus of ""The Insider"", a 1999 film shot around the"
"joke"" at the research labs. The joke they found amusing was that the research involved the concern: ""To burn or not to burn."" As a footnote to his work campaigning for Fire Safe Cigarettes, Andrew introduced Jeffrey Wigand (the whistleblower and former head of Research and Development for Brown & Williamson Tobacco. Co.) to Lowell Bergman. The relationship between Wigand and Bergman was the subject of the 1999 Hollywood film, The Insider, starring Russell Crowe (playing Wigand) and Al Pacino (playing Bergman). Andrew also introduced Wigand to Dr. David Kessler's staff at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In January,"
"entertainment industry. Several major motion pictures have also been filmed in or near Louisville, including ""The Insider"", ""Goldfinger"", ""Stripes"", ""Lawn Dogs"", ""Elizabethtown"", ""Demolition Man"", and ""Secretariat"". Also located in Louisville is a branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Louisville for a long time was also home to the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, at its peak one of the largest manufacturers and wholesale distributors of hardware in the United States, as well as Brown & Williamson, the third largest company in the tobacco industry before merging with R. J. Reynolds in 2004 to form the Reynolds American"
"newspaper revised the quote slightly, suggesting that ""60 Minutes"" and CBS had ""betrayed the legacy of Edward R. Murrow"". The incident was turned into a seven-times Oscar-nominated feature film entitled ""The Insider"", directed by Michael Mann and starring Russell Crowe as Wigand, Al Pacino as Bergman, and Christopher Plummer as Mike Wallace. Wallace denounced the portrayal of him as inaccurate to his stance on the issue. ""60 Minutes"" alleged in 1997 that agents of the U.S. Customs Service ignored drug trafficking across the Mexico–United States border at San Diego. The only evidence was a memorandum apparently written by Rudy Camacho,"
"of the notable tobacco companies in the US are: There has been intensive lobbying in the US to portray smoking as a harmless activity. ""The Insider"" is a 1999 feature film about the production of a news segment exposing Big Tobacco. Lobbyists include: A half million children work in the fields of America picking food in 2012. In eastern North Carolina, children have been interviewed as young as fourteen who worked harvesting tobacco, and recent news reports describe children as young as nine and ten doing such work. Federal law provides no minimum age for work on small farms with"
"had written an unflattering piece about him earlier that year. Marie Brenner Marie Brenner (born December 15, 1949) is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for ""Vanity Fair"". She has also written for ""New York"", ""The New Yorker"" and the ""Boston Herald"" and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her ""Vanity Fair"" article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", inspired the 1999 movie ""The Insider"", starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. Marie Harriet Brenner was born December 15, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas to Milton Conrad Brenner and Thelma (Long) Brenner."
"as ""complications from organ failure"". Motley was lead counsel for more than 6,500 family members and survivors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks seeking justice against al-Qaeda’s financiers. Motley has over his three-decade career won major judgments for his clients against the asbestos and tobacco industries. Ronald Motley was portrayed by Bruce McGill in the 1999 film ""The Insider"", starring Russell Crowe. Ronald Motley Ronald L. Motley (October 21, 1944 – August 22, 2013) was an American trial attorney, and a principal of Motley Rice LLC–a law firm based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. He is best known for"
"takeover of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Crowe had first gotten to know Palladino and his Australian wife and partner, Sandra Sutherland, when all three worked on the film ""The Insider"". Ronan Farrow reported in November 2017 that Harvey Weinstein had, through the lawyer David Boies, employed the private intelligence agencies Kroll, Black Cube and private investigator Jack Palladino to spy on and influence Weinstein's alleged victims as well as reporters who were investigating Weinstein, so as to prevent his conduct from becoming public. Note: Palladino is often confused with Anthony Pellicano, a Los Angeles-based private investigator whose client list is"
"Marie Brenner Marie Brenner (born December 15, 1949) is an American author, investigative journalist and writer-at-large for ""Vanity Fair"". She has also written for ""New York"", ""The New Yorker"" and the ""Boston Herald"" and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her ""Vanity Fair"" article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", inspired the 1999 movie ""The Insider"", starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino. Marie Harriet Brenner was born December 15, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas to Milton Conrad Brenner and Thelma (Long) Brenner. She grew up in San Antonio and moved to New"
"of his role in the events; in particular, he objected to the impression that he would have taken a long time to protest CBS's corporate policies. ""The Insider"" was released in 1,809 theaters on November 5, 1999 where it grossed a total of $6,712,361 on its opening weekend and ranked fourth in the country for that time period. It went on to make $29.1 million in North America and $31.2 million in the rest of the world for a total of $60.3 million worldwide, significantly lower than its $90 million budget. The film was considered to be a commercial disappointment."
"and covered the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Brenner joined ""Vanity Fair"" as a special correspondent in 1984. She left the magazine in 1992 to become a staff writer at ""The New Yorker"", returning to ""Vanity Fair"" in 1995 as writer-at-large. Her explosive 1996 article for ""Vanity Fair"" on Jeffrey Wigand and the tobacco wars, titled ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", was made into the 1999 feature film ""The Insider"", starring Russell Crowe and Al Pacino, and directed by Michael Mann. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Brenner's 2002 ""Vanity Fair"""
"the 1999–2000 season. Hewitt was a primary figure in the televising of a 1996 ""60 Minutes"" documentary on the tobacco-industry scandal involving the tobacco company Brown & Williamson, in which the program reported the allegations of whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. The scandal was the inspiration for the 1999 film ""The Insider"". Hewitt was portrayed in the film by Philip Baker Hall. Declining ratings at ""60 Minutes""—after decades of being in the top 10, the show had dropped in rankings to number 20—contributed to what became a public debate in 2002 about whether it was time for CBS to replace Hewitt at"
"and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Sandler worked closely with Lowell Bergman, a former 60 Minutes producer who was portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie, The Insider. Following up on a tip provided by Bergman, Sandler and another student, Robin Stein, developed a story about deaths, injuries and environmental violations at a nationwide water and sewer pipe foundry. The New York Times hired Sandler and Stein to work with its reporters and continue their reporting. The story, called “Dangerous Business,” appeared as a three-day series on the"
"takes center stage, an insider prodded to spill the truth"". ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's Peter Travers wrote, ""With its dynamite performances, strafing wit and dramatic provocation, ""The Insider"" offers Mann at his best—blood up, unsanitized, and unbowed"". However, ""Entertainment Weekly"" gave the film a ""B"" rating and felt that it was ""a good but far from great movie because it presents truth telling in America as far more imperiled than it is"". Director Quentin Tarantino included ""The Insider"" in his list of top 20 films released since 1992 (the year he became a director). In 2006, ""Premiere"" ranked Crowe's performance #23"
"a long relationship with the entertainment industry. In silent era movies, back-lit smoke was often used by filmmakers to create sense of mystery and sensuality in a scene. Later, cigarettes were deliberately placed in the hands of Hollywood stars as an early phase of product placement, until health regulating bodies tightened rules on tobacco advertisement and anti-smoking groups pressured actors and studio executives against such tactics. Big Tobacco has since been the subject focus of films such as the docudrama ""The Insider"" (1999) and ""Thank You For Smoking"" (2005). These issues have also constituted a recurring storyline in the AMC"
"Brown & Williamson Brown & Williamson was an American tobacco company and subsidiary of British American Tobacco that produced several popular cigarette brands. It became infamous as the focus of investigations for chemically enhancing the addictiveness of cigarettes. Its former vice-president of research and development, Jeffrey Wigand, was the whistleblower in an investigation conducted by CBS news program ""60 Minutes"", an event that was dramatized in the film ""The Insider"". Wigand claimed that B&W had introduced chemicals such as ammonia into cigarettes to increase nicotine delivery and increase addictiveness. Brown & Williamson had its headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, until July"
"bordering on glee."" In 1997's ""Donnie Brasco"", Pacino played gangster ""Lefty"" in the true story of undercover FBI agent Donnie Brasco (Johnny Depp) and his work in bringing down the Mafia from the inside. In 1999, Pacino starred as ""60 Minutes"" producer Lowell Bergman in the multi-Oscar nominated ""The Insider"" opposite Russell Crowe, and in Oliver Stone's ""Any Given Sunday"". Pacino has not received another Academy Award nomination since winning for ""Scent of a Woman"", but has won three Golden Globes since the year 2000, the first being the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001 for lifetime achievement in motion"
"Insider"" in which Palladino appears as himself, and his partner, Sandra Sutherland, is played by actress Megan Odebash. In 2002, singer, songwriter, and record producer R. Kelly was charged with videotaping himself having sex with an underage teenage girl. An investigation by Palladino that lasted six years culminated in Palladino's testimony at trial challenging the principal prosecution witness, and the acquittal of Kelly in less than a day. In April 2009, Australian businessman Peter Holmes à Court admitted in the NSW Supreme Court that the Hollywood actor Russell Crowe had hired Palladino & Sutherland to investigate opposition to the planned"
"complete a film; Petersen believes that this is why Mann does not make films very often. He gained widespread recognition in 1992 for his film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel into the epic film ""The Last of the Mohicans"". His biggest critical successes in the 1990s began with the release of ""Heat"" in 1995 and ""The Insider"" in 1999. The films, which featured Al Pacino with Robert De Niro in ""Heat"" and Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in ""The Insider"", showcased Mann's cinematic style and adeptness at creating rich, complex storylines as well as directing actors. ""The Insider"" was"
"securities industry, with a history of ""obvious disregard for all rules of fair practice."" In 1999, Belfort and Porush were indicted for securities fraud and money laundering. They pleaded guilty and admitted that for seven years they operated a scheme in which they manipulated the stock of at least 34 companies. As part of their plea deal, they received less prison time, and cooperated with prosecutors in their investigations of other brokerage houses. The 2013 film ""The Wolf of Wall Street"" is a drama based on the memoirs of Jordan Belfort, directed by Martin Scorsese. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort"
"L.A. Confidential (film) L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American neo-noir crime film directed, produced and co-written by Curtis Hanson. The screenplay by Hanson and Brian Helgeland is based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same name, the third book in his ""L.A. Quartet"" series. The film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine ""Confidential"", portrayed in the film as ""Hush-Hush"". At the time, Australian actors Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe were relatively unknown in North America. One of"
"connection to organised crime. His programmes have been featured on Channel 4, the BBC, ""Panorama"", Granada Television, ABC, and PBS ""Frontline"". Collaborating with Chicago director Michael Mann, he played ""Boreksco"", a corrupt police officer, in Mann's 1981 debut feature film, ""Thief"", and was a technical adviser to ""The Insider"", Mann's 1999 film about Jeffrey Wigand, a researcher at the tobacco company Brown & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky, owned by British American Tobacco, who became among the most famous corporate whistleblowers in the United States. Wigand revealed the industry deceptions and practices of Big Tobacco that got people hooked. Wigand's decision"
"the initial round of balloting, behind Democratic state Senator Gene Taylor and Republican Tom Anderson. Taylor went on to defeat Anderson in the runoff. In 1994, he filed the first lawsuit against thirteen tobacco companies, claiming that they should reimburse the State for the costs of treating those with smoking-related illnesses. Attorneys General from several other states joined the suit, with Moore as the lead negotiator. The settlement was worth $246 billion to the states, including $4.1 billion for Mississippi. The Michael Mann-directed film ""The Insider"" portrays some of the events leading up to this settlement; Moore played himself in"
"and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer"", his portrayal of Richard F. ""Dickie"" Scruggs, the famed trial lawyer and brother-in-law of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. In the 1990s, Scruggs was a lead attorney in the tobacco litigation which was settled for $248 billion. He was portrayed by actor Colm Feore in the movie ""The Insider"". Scruggs also successfully sued the asbestos industry, the makers of Ritalin, and insurers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Wilkie frequently appears on panel discussions related to Southern politics, journalism and the Civil Rights struggle in Mississippi. He is known for"
"needs of the federal correctional system. Therefore, I direct the bureau to return to its previous approach."" The private prison industry has been booming under the Trump Administration. About 18% of eligible prisoners held in federal prisons are employed by UNICOR and are paid less than $1.25 an hour. Prisons have gradually become a source of low-wage labor for corporations seeking to outsource work to inmates. Corporations that utilize prison labor include Walmart, Eddie Bauer, Victoria's Secret, Microsoft, Starbucks, McDonald's, Nintendo, Chevron Corporation, Bank of America, Koch Industries, Boeing and Costco Wholesale. It is estimated that 1 in 9 state"
"was chronicled in the Academy Award–nominated film ""The Insider"". From 1999 to 2008, Bergman was an investigative correspondent for ""The New York Times"". Creating collaborative investigative projects using broadcast, print and the Web became his specialty. Bergman has received honors for both print and broadcasting, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded to ""The New York Times"" in 2004 for ""A Dangerous Business"" which detailed a record of worker safety violations coupled with the systematic violation of environmental laws in the cast-iron sewer and water pipe industry. That story is the only winner of the Pulitzer Prize to also"
"interests, and as a cabal of corporations influencing everything that goes on in the United States. The Company has influence over many agencies of the United States government, especially the Secret Service. With Caroline Reynolds (Patricia Wettig), the former Vice President of the United States in their grasp, The Company held control over the government's sway on the energy bill and subsequently, the country's economy. However, The Company considers every individual who works for them a pawn to achieve their goals. The Company and its operatives have on several occasions displayed their complete lack of regard for innocent people's lives."
"The Insider (TV program) The Insider (formerly named omg! Insider) is a defunct American syndicated newsmagazine television program that was distributed by CBS Television Distribution. The program premiered in first-run syndication on September 13, 2004 and ended on September 9, 2017, as a spin-off of ""Entertainment Tonight"", which originated the concept as a segment that took viewers ""behind closed doors"" and gave them ""inside"" information on stories and topics of interest from throughout the entertainment industry. When it became a separate program, it shifted toward a tabloid direction, and had several format changes through its thirteen seasons on the air"
"The controversy raised questions about the legal roles in decision-making and whether journalistic standards should be compromised despite legal pressures and threats. The decision nevertheless sent shockwaves throughout the television industry, the journalism community, and the country. This incident was the basis for the 1999 Michael Mann-directed drama film, ""The Insider"". In 2004, the Federal Communications Commission imposed a record $550,000 fine, the largest fine ever for a violation of federal decency laws, against CBS for an incident during its broadcast of Super Bowl XXXVIII in which singer Janet Jackson's right breast (which was partially covered by a piece of"